Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 May 1939, p. 5

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1. Greatly increased. tax levies. to ie- crease teachers' 5alaries., 2. Life jobs for teachers and the. re- moicval, In cffect, of final' authorîty in disnMissing teachers from princi- pJals, superintendents. and sehool- boards_ and placing it wîth the courts. * trling North, novelist, critic,ý Two Principal .Mcasures andi poet, will cscuss "Pro gres- *Two principal measures are con-> sive Education as a Laymnan cern ed in the tax situation.ý One i s Sees it,". at the final meeting the 'bill to appropriate state. funds of the year of the Central,-Laurel * for state aid for schools,, including Parent-Teacher association to be a considerable amounitfor a revised held TuescIay evening, May 23 tea chers' pension fund. This proj- at 8 o'clock in the Stolp school ect has had support' of ail school. gymnasium. board and teacher associations and unions.. It calis for about $31,500,000 Mr. North is a graduate of the over,t e, nextbienniiuIn th&e Rc Uiery .o Cao , , an- d -at, p<es- publican-controlled house it and ifs ent is on the staff of the Chicago companion measure passed sorne Daily News as literary editor. time ago. However. both Governor Mrs. Paul Robertson, programn Uorner and Lieutenant Governor chairman, and her comnmittee, com- Stelle are asking that the amount prised of Mrs. W. S. .Christopher and *be reduced to. a total of $30,000,000. Mrs. C. M. Dold are in charge o! It is. rather generally held that if the meeting. *the amouî.L is eut to this figure it'_________ will be the pension revision fund that wilI suffér.. Night Prowlers Thmis naturally throws teacher sup- -- _ .Mr. Miler, mwho 'is secretaty and, treasurer of the Cowham' Engineer- ing corporation, builders and opera- tors o! Portland cernent milis, is -a popular speaker amnong.,youth groups. Ken ilwvorth Trustee Porter Fox, 626 Warwick road, Kenilworth, chairman of the police committee of the village council, resigned last week as a mem- ber o! the board o f trustees, o n which he haa- past seven year5. 20, on the expansive lawn of the Chic ago and North Western station. It:will be an ail-day affair. This year' thé sale. of flowers, Plants, ga-rden, equipment and ac- cessories, as well as home-made foods, will be sponsored by Spokes 3 and 4 o! the Wornen's ioiciety of the First Presbyterian church.. The committee in3 charge reports there will be tables o! annuals and ,perennials displayed by several Wil- mette gardeners; as well as tables exhibiting the latést thing, in gar- den toolis, sprayrers and inisecticides. An outstanding feature* wiil bel a food booth. 'This sale, it is pointed out, affords an opportunity to vllagers to securg_ a variety of flowèrs for their gr dèt9 Th toêed wilflbe direéitèd into the building fund of the Pres- byterian church.' The general committee in charge of the sale, from whose menibers information may be obtained, ini- cludes Mrs. Frank Pollock, Mns. Wilfred Gillies, Mrs. Robert Swaini, and Mrs. C. A. Willis. instead 7,of the pensions. The ad-i ministration very plainly states that' * when the proposition gets into the Senate it wil find rough sledding unless the amount is lowered. Charge "Double-cross" M\/eanwhile last week the -enate * passed the Chicago "pegged- levy bill raising the school taxes in Chi- cago from $45,000,000 hast year tLO cases. uefore enrance was effectea. One was at the Wolf-Watts hard-. ware store, 1119 Central avenue. Robert Wolff, who occupies an apartment in the building, heard the burgiars and went down to investi- gate. 'Two men hurried away at bhis approach, going east in the alley to Eleventh street where they enter- ed an automobile and drove away. membrshi. p.The Kenilworth advisory commit- wseetdlast tee,, of which John Nuveen, Jr., 520 month for a four- Porter Fox Warwick road, president of' the year term. No school board, is chairman, wil hold action has as yet been taken to fill its anriual meeting next Sunday. the aca~y, lthugh t ws m I addition to the electiori of of- the acacyaltoughit as ndificers, it was announced, plans will cated that a special election might be discussed. for the organization of be called later. a permanent community chest for -.. ....................... ...the villa ge. ý 1

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